• SaneMartigan@aussie.zone
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    5 hours ago

    It’s too expensive to be an artist in this country. Used to be able to work a few shifts somewhere to earn enough for food, rent, art and a drink from time to time. Now a full time job barely pays enough to rent a shoebox. The soul crushing boot of neolibralism strikes again.

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      4 hours ago

      Yeah the only people who can afford it now are wealthy kids, trust fund kids.

      There was once a time our decent social services underwrote the development of performing arts but that’s squeezed out now by housing and life costs.

      It’s pretty obvious why it’s dying; the same reasons birth rates are falling. The major parties aren’t hearing it though.